Togo
Power & telecom standards in Togo
Connectivity Overview
Tempest Telecom offered satellite-only service in Togo. Iridium satellite Internet and Voice access was available for communications in rural areas without infrastructure.
Togo uses 220V at 50Hz. Power outlets are type C and telephone jacks are RJ-11.
Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up access was not available in Togo. Satellite Internet was the recommended alternative.
WiFi Hotspot Access
WiFi hotspot access was not available through Tempest in Togo.
Adapters & Power
Travelers from North America will need a power plug adapter. European Type C/F adapters are widely compatible.
Standard RJ-11 jacks are used. Most international modems will connect without an adapter.
Togo at a Glance
- Capital
- Lome
- Phone Code
- +228
- Voltage
- 220V / 50Hz
- Power Plug
- C
- Phone Jack
- RJ-11
- Currency
- CFA Franc
- Dial-up
- N/A
- WiFi
- N/A
About connectivity in Togo
Togo uses 220V/50Hz with Type C outlets — French colonial-era wiring. The phone jack is RJ-11. Togo Telecom (state) and Moov Africa Togo, Yas Togo (formerly Togocel) compete in the country's telecom market.
Togolese commercial Internet emerged in the late 1990s. Per-minute metered dial-up dominated. Mobile data has driven essentially all subsequent connectivity growth.
The Togolese prepaid international calling-card market through the 2000s served the modest Togolese outbound diaspora — concentrated in France, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, and the United States.
Tempest Telecom served Togo through dial-up POPs in Lomé. The Port of Lomé maritime industry (a major West African trade hub serving landlocked Sahel countries) sustained Iridium demand.
Modern Togo has expanding 4G LTE coverage with FTTH concentrated in Lomé.
Tempest's services across Togo, 1997–2012
Tempest Telecommunications operated international connectivity services in Togo between 1997 and 2012 under a unified prepaid account that absorbed multiple service types onto a single customer credential. Customers in Togo drew from the same balance for pre-paid international voice calling, RADIUS-authenticated dial-up Internet roaming, metered Wi-Fi hotspot access, Iridium and Thuraya satellite voice, and Inmarsat BGAN and Thuraya data terminals. An attempted kiosk-payment federation (PATN, 1998) extended the same architecture to public Internet terminals but failed to reach scale.
Both Iridium (global LEO) and Thuraya (regional GEO) satellite voice were available in Togo from approximately 2001, alongside global BGAN data from late 2005.
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